Mark Small

Oakland Mayor @LibbySchaaf: “I can’t tell you what it was like to get the call” that she wanted to hold her rally here.

Schaaf: “She was one of the first leaders on criminal justice reform back when it was popular to be tough on crime. She’s smart on crime.” Interested if Kamala will also frame her controversial CJ record as perhaps not progressive today, but progressive *for the time*

“I am so proud to be a daughter of Oakland, California.”

Kamala recounts the five words that she spoke on her first day as a prosecutor, only a few blocks away from where she’s speaking: “Kamala Harris for the people.”

I could be mistaken, but there appeared to be a few counterprotesters shouting during her speech, which were quickly drowned out by the crowd chanting “Kamala! Kamala!”

Speaking of transnational gangs: “The president’s medieval vanity project” isn’t going to stop them. Big crowdpleaser.

“We are at an inflection point in our world. We are at an inflection point in our nation...We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question: Who are we? America, we are better than this.”